INTERMITTENT SPRINGS
\ˌɪntəmˈɪtənt spɹˈɪŋz], \ˌɪntəmˈɪtənt spɹˈɪŋz], \ˌɪ_n_t_ə_m_ˈɪ_t_ə_n_t s_p_ɹ_ˈɪ_ŋ_z]\
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An example of the common siphon. If, towards the bottom of a subterranean region, the water which eventually appears as a spring escape by an ascending siphon-like passage, the flow will continue till the reservoir be nearly emptied. Between this time and the rising of the inflowing water to the highest point of the siphon the spring will be intermittent. Examples, the Great Geyser, and the Sabbatic River of Josephus and Pliny, near Tripoli, now the Neba el Fuarr (Thomson, The Land and the Book, p. 263).
By Henry Percy Smith
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